Supporting and feed mechanism for bottling and analogous machines.



A. J. PETERSEN. SUPPORTING AND FEED MEGHANISM FOR BOTTLING AND ANALOGOUS MAGHINES.

APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 9, 1912.

Patented July 9, 1912.

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WITN ESSE- S COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH (10., WASHINGTON, D c.

A. J. PETERSEN. SUPPORTING AND FEED MECHANISM FOR BOTTLING AND ANALOGOUS MACHINES.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 9, 1912.

1,032,157, Patented July 9, 1912. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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iirE sas ear ADOLF JOI-IANNES PETERSEN, OF BEE-LIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO HOLSTEIN & KAP- PERT, MASCHINENFABRIK PHONIX, Gr. M. B. Ii, OF DOR'IIVIUND, GERMANY.

SUPPORTING AND FEED MECHANISM FOR BOTTLING AND ANALOGOUS MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1912.

Application filed January 9, 1912. Serial No. 670,143.

'T 0 all who 17bit may concern Be it known that I, ADoLr JoirANNEs PETERSEN, a subject of the German Emperor, and resident of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Supporting and Feed Mechanism for Bottling and Analogous Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to support-mg and feed mechanism more especially for use in supporting bottles or other receptacles and feeding them to and away from the operative organs of bottling and analogous ma chines, and the object of the invention is to so devise such mechanism as to enable the bottles or other receptacles to be operated on in a more reliable and safer manner than has been possible heretofore, and within a minimum of space. I

To this end the invention consists substantially in rotary supporting means wherein the bottles or other receptacles are carried around in two concentric circular series and acted on at suitable intervals by other rotary means adapted to engage individual bottles of both concentric series and, by a rotary movement of the said rotary engaging means on a common axis, to cause the said bottles or receptacles to exchange their places in the two series, that is to say, to convey a bottle or receptacle from the inner series to the outer and at the same time to convey another bottle or receptacle from the outer series to the inner, in order to be filled or otherwise acted upon while in the inner series, and to be taken away or corked or otherwise operated on while in the outer series.

Other objects and improvements forming part of this invention will be referred to more in detail in the specification.

The drawings by way of the example show the invention as applied to a bottling machine.

Figure 1 is an elevation and part central vertical section of such a machine. Fig. 2 is a plan View, certain parts being omitted. Fig. 3 is a detail shown in vertical section on the line x-a2 of Fig. 1, as viewed from the right to the left. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a detail to be referred to. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic plan view showing a modification.

a is a table adapted to be rotated in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 2 by means of a worm gear 6. This table carries two concentric series of holders 0 each adapted to receive a bottle. These holders are connected in pairs by arms d, and, as shown in Figs. 13, each arm (Z connects a holder of the inner series with the concentric outer series. A shaft 0 extends from the center of each arm cl downward through the table a, the said shaft carrying crossarms f and farther below a disk 9 having notches g Opposite the cross-arms f is provided, on a stationary part it of the machine frame, a rod having stops i, 6 which in the rotary movement of the table act by their engagement with the arms of the rotary cross to rotate the arm (Z so as to cause a holder containing a bottle, which has been filled in the meantime, to exchange its place with a corresponding holder containing an empty bottle inserted therein and to thereby move such holder and bottle to the inner series, this movement being effected by. a single motion of the arm (Z carrying the two holders.

The empty bottles are inserted at I and the filled bottles are taken away at II and III (Fig. 2). If desired, a suitable mechanism for corking the bottles maybe mounted on the machine and operated to cork the bottles before they are taken away at II and III;

During the rotary movement of the table (a the bottles in the inner series are filled in the usual and well known manner from a reservoir 73 mounted on the rotatable table and rotating therewith. To this end the several bottles of the inner series and their holders are automatically raised in the well known manner by a piston m at the proper moment, preferably by means of compressed air, the bottles being thereby pressed against guide means 91 provided in the discharge pipe 0 of the bottling mechanism proper, thereby causing a valve or cock of said bottling mechanism to be opened and to discharge the liquid into the bottle. The shut-- ting off of the discharge of liquid is also effected in the well known manner while the piston m moves downward again.

In order to provide against breakage or interference with the operation in case the piston should fail to move downward when in the rotary movement of the table the crossarms f strike the stops 2', i each of these stops is provided with a suitable contrivance, such as the weight p shown in Fig. 3, which allows the stop to move out of the way when any excessive resistance against a. rotary movement of the cross-arms occurs. This is shown in dot-ted lines in Fig. 3, and it will there be seen that when any such re sistance occurs, the stop is moved aside to allow the cross-arms to move along without performing any rotary movement. The notched disk 9 mounted on the shaft 6 below the cross-arms cooperates with a latch or the like which in each rotary movement of the cross-arms engages in one of the notches g to thereby retain the cross-arms in position. Before the next rotary movement commences the said latch is again raised out of engagement with its notch to permit such rotary movement. This raising of the latch out of engagement is here effected by a lower extension of the said latch riding over a guide 9 provided on a stationary part of the machine frame (such as an arm of the part h), and this acts to move the latch out of engagement.

Various modifications of the mechanism may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. Thus, instead of two bottles and holders being caused to change places at a time, it will be possible to provide for four or any other number of bottles and holders being moved in this manner, that is to say, two of the inner series and two of the outer series, for in stance. An arrangement of this kind is shown by way of example in Fig. 4, a doubled arm (Z being there provided, each arm carrying two holders of the inner and outer series respectively, so that at every rotation of the shaft 0 two holders and bottles of the one series will change places with two holders and bottles of the other series.

Another modified construction is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 5, the bottles of the outer series, instead of being inserted in holders, there resting on an outer annular section a of the table and this table section being mounted in the same horizontal plane as the inner table section a so as to surround the latter. Any suitable means may be provided for rotating the inner circular table section a in a direction opposite to that of the outer or annular section a As shown in this diagram, rotary arms (2' here act to move the empty bottles of the outer annular series from the table section a onto the inner circular section 01. on which the bottles will then be moved around below the filling apparatus proper to be subsequently, after having nearly completed the rotary movement of the section al returned to the outer annular table section a by means of another rotary arm (Z and to be then taken ofi this latter table section.

The invention posesses various advantages as compared with the mechanism heretofore known, more especially as compared with those mechanisms in which a special chain or belt is used for feeding the bottles to the operating table and subsequently transferring them from this table to some other place. The feeding of the empty and filled bottles here takes place on the table itself, and this results in material saving of space and driving power, while at the same time materially simplifying the construction. Moreover, the fact that the bottles are arranged in two concentric series, the bottles in the inner series being continuously filled or otherwise treated, while the bottles in the outer series are fed to and away from the operative organs of the machine (and in some cases also corked or otherwise acted on) also results in a better utilization of the space. Another advantage resulting from this arrangement, especially in bottling machines, is this that the filling operation need only be interrupted at one place at the time (that is to say at the point where the interchange of bottles between the two series takes place) whereas in the former constructions at least three and in some cases more places of discharge had to remain inactive.

What I claim is: V

1. In a supporting and feed mechanism for vessels, such as bottles, the combination with a number of operating organs to act on said vessels, of rotary supporting means for carrying two concentric series of vessels, means for rotating said supporting means, engaging means adapted by a rotary movement to simultaneously transfer vessels from the outer series to the inner and from the inner to the outer, and means for rotating said engaging means.

2. In a supporting and feed mechanism for vessels, such as bottles, the combination with a number of operating organs to act on said vessels, of rotary supporting means having said operating organs mounted thereon and adapted to carry two concentric series of vessels, means for-continuously rotating said supporting means with the operating organs and vessels, means adapted by intermittent rotary movements to simultaneously transfer vessels from the outer series to the inner and from the inner to the outer during the rotation of said supporting means, and means for intermittently rotating said engaging means.

3. In a supporting and feed mechanism for vessels, such as bottles, the combination with a number of operating organs to act on said vessels, of rotary supporting means having said operating organs mounted thereon in operative relation with an inner circular series of vessels and adapted to carry said inner series of vessels and a concentric outer series .of vessels, means for continuously rotating said supporting means with the operative organs and vessels, and means adapted by lntermittent rotary movements to simultaneously transfer vessels from the outer series to the inner and from the inner to the outer during the rotation of the said supporting means, and means for intermittently rotating said engaging means.

4. In a supporting and feed mechanism for vessels, such as bottles, the combination with a number of operating organs to act on said vessels, of rotary supporting means having said operating organs mounted thereon in operative relation with an inner circular series of vessels and adapted to carry said inner series of vessels and a concentric outer series of vessels, means for continuously rotating said supporting means with the operative organs and vessels, vertical rotary shafts mounted on the rotary supporting means and having rigid arms for supporting vessels in position both in the inner and outer concentric series, cross-arms on said shafts, stationary stops mounted on the line of travel of said cross-arm's and adapted by engage ment therewith to rotate said shafts and vessel-supporting arms to cause the vessels thereon to exchange their places in the two series. I

5. In a supporting and feed mechanism for vessels, such as bottles, the combination with a number of operating organs to act on said vessels, of rotary supporting means having said operating organs mounted thereon in operative relation with an inner circular series of vessels and adapted to carry said inner series of vessels and a concentric outer series of vessels, means for continuously rotating said supporting means with the operative organs and Vessels, vertical rotary shafts mounted on the rotary supporting means and having rigid arms for supporting vessels in position both in the inner and outer concentrio series, cross-arms 011 said shaft-s, stationary stops mounted in the line of travel of said cross-arms and adapted by engagement therewith to rotate said shafts and vessel-supporting arms to cause the vessels thereon to exchange their places in the two series, means for normally retaining said stops in their operative position and permitting them to yield when encountering excessive resistance from said cross-arms.

6. In a supporting and feed mechanism for vessels, such as bottles, the combination with a number of operating organs to act on said vessels, of rotary supporting means having said operating organs mounted thereon in operative relation with an inner circular series of vessels and adapted to carry said inner series of vessels and a concentric outer series of vessels, means for continuously rotating said supporting means with the operative organs and vessels, vertical rotary shafts mounted on the rotary supporting means and having rigid arms for supporting vessels in position both in the inner and outer concentric series, cross-arms on said shafts, pivoted stationary stops mounted in the line of travel of said cross-arms and adapted by engagement therewith to rotate said shafts and vessel-supporting arms to cause the vessels thereon to exchange their places in the two series, counter-weights on said stops for normally holding them in their operative position and permitting them to move aside when encountering excessive resistance from said cross-arms.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ADOLF J OHANNES PETERSEN.

Witnesses:

HENRY I-IAsrER, VvOLDEMAR HAUPT.

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